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‘Anti-European’ populists on track for big gains in EU elections, says report
(www.theguardian.com)
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There can be no logical explanation for this that has anything to do with EU policy.
Of course not
What EU policies do you have in mind that are bothersome to populists?
Potentially, all of them. Technically, EU politics are “not your country’s” politics.
Spoken like a true populists. It's not about the content of the policy but how they are made, only that they're made like they are in every member state, usually enjoy a vast support in every country and create a benefit for the people. See USB-C rules. If the opposition is only how those policies and laws are made, the critic is not substantial. In every country sone rural voters influence the life of city people and vice versa. It's the same with the EU, just bigger. Please tell me what people actually reject. This was not supposed to be a got ya question. If the only criticism is the order of the union then it's not the policies fault but rather how populists speak about it
I can only speak for myself now. Perhaps this much about me: I am a data protection-loving communist. As such, I am bothered by unjust laws in the EU such as data retention and the constant feeling that we are ultimately powerless here because no matter what we do, our future is decided in Brussels/Strasbourg. Germany in particular tends to deport politicians who have proven to be the enemy of the free web in this country to the European Parliament (Axel Voss, Ursula von der Leyen, etc.).
You know that the EU is the reason why Germany had to repeal and repeal again their Mass Data Retention Laws https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/bundesverwaltungsgericht-vorratsdatenspeicherung-rechtswidrig-100.html
The policy of letting in migrants. Remember the migrant crisis a couple years back? It's still on going.
What crisis? I’m having a lot of problems, inflation, rent increases, not getting doctors appointments, slow internet, lack of digitalization, the glooming outlook on climate change, shitty public transportation, my government funding a genocide to name a few of them.
I couldn’t care less about some people coming here from somewhere else. I don’t have any negative consequences of this in my daily life. But all of the above are impacting my quality of life every day. I don’t care what kind of fearmongering bs right wing dipshit politicians are making up to scam people into voting for them. I want the above issues and many others to be addressed.